May Day fell on a Sunday, one year to the day after I graduated college. I already was a minister of music and youth at the local First Baptist Church. Back then, we thought it was a good idea. Folks…
‘I came to watch a great convention die’
I attended my first Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in June 1987. Participation was part of my first class at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Bill Leonard’s J-Term study of the SBC. I was standing with Leonard, then and still our…